Sentence examples for pernicious about from inspiring English sources

Yet there is something pernicious about this self-presentation.

Yet there is something pernicious about inflation falling too far, too fast.

What is pernicious about the new influence of blogging, Twitter and Facebook is that it is forcing rewrites as if theater were about cookie-driven marketing, interactive authorship and Google search tailoring.

What they find especially pernicious about this trend — and here they could be speaking directly about "Maternal Desire" — is that its anti-feminist message is frequently cloaked in feminist terms.

What is so pernicious about this movement is that feeling bad about our bodies is being dressed up as female emancipation, wrapped up in the idea of self-control.

It is about being more pernicious, about getting under people's skin," said Muir. "Finding a real sub-culture is more important now than just calling something the new 'avant-garde'.

"What is important is that having rejected stereotypical thinking about consent and rape, we don't adopt equally pernicious assumptions about men and their tendency to rape and/or the inherent believability of complainants".

One of the most pernicious misconceptions about complex systems is that complexity and chaotic behaviour are synonymous.

The most pernicious thing about institutionalised homophobia and legal repression is that they make this realisation so hard.

"I worry that such a description subtly plays into pernicious ideas about the Old Testament as burdensome and the New Testament as freeing.

It seemed clear to me that false and pernicious ideas about free will were being bandied around as though they were uncontroversial.